I'm glad I chose to spend the extra $50 to get an "anti-glare" LCD on this laptop. I will never understand the "glossy" screen bullshit most laptops come with these days. Maybe the marketroids discovered that people liked looking at their reflections all day.
"Yes please, I'll have the glare screen!"
Friday, November 20, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
The Prisoner 2009
So far what I like most about the remake of The Prisoner is, "wraps." All food served in The Village comes in the form of sandwich wraps. Wrap sandwiches? The one exception seems to be cherry cake.
I always hated wraps. Only people who don't know what good bread is could like wraps. In The Prisoner and in real life wraps represent bland, corporate catered lunches. A McDonalds hamburger bun has more character than a wrap. Wraps utterly fail to be bread. Pita bread is what you should use if you want a rolled up sandwich.
When wraps come into contact with something moist they get slimy and since most sandwich fillers are moist, wrap sandwiches are almost always slimy.
I'm not a big fan of burritos either. Burritos are fake Mexican, IMHO. Wraps are similar to white flour tortillas, which of course are not real tortillas. Real tortillas are made with corn.
I always hated wraps. Only people who don't know what good bread is could like wraps. In The Prisoner and in real life wraps represent bland, corporate catered lunches. A McDonalds hamburger bun has more character than a wrap. Wraps utterly fail to be bread. Pita bread is what you should use if you want a rolled up sandwich.
When wraps come into contact with something moist they get slimy and since most sandwich fillers are moist, wrap sandwiches are almost always slimy.
I'm not a big fan of burritos either. Burritos are fake Mexican, IMHO. Wraps are similar to white flour tortillas, which of course are not real tortillas. Real tortillas are made with corn.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
rantmore re Windows
My employer was not willing to give me a Mac so for the next week I had to use a Dell E6400 running WinXP 64bit. He wanted me to run VMware on XP so I could run Linux virtual machines on the lappie. Great. That's like seatbelting yourself to the hood of a car and reaching in through a window to steer.
So wow. Big surprise; the experience has been pure hell.
The box spontanious resets itself at least daily. Yay! And yeah, I have all the latest recommended patches installed from the Beast of Redmond.
OS X and Linux distros have plenty of "features" that annoy me but they don't crash with anything like the frequency of XP. And I never know how J. Random Windows app will behave. There's no consistancy. Today WinSCP pissed me off severely. What does it do with a file you double click on? I assumed I was downloading the file to -somewhere- but POOF a blank window pops up and the file is nowhere to be found. WTF? Shouldn't the default action be "SAVE TO LOCAL DISK"??? I'd look in /tmp if windoze had one.
So wow. Big surprise; the experience has been pure hell.
The box spontanious resets itself at least daily. Yay! And yeah, I have all the latest recommended patches installed from the Beast of Redmond.
OS X and Linux distros have plenty of "features" that annoy me but they don't crash with anything like the frequency of XP. And I never know how J. Random Windows app will behave. There's no consistancy. Today WinSCP pissed me off severely. What does it do with a file you double click on? I assumed I was downloading the file to -somewhere- but POOF a blank window pops up and the file is nowhere to be found. WTF? Shouldn't the default action be "SAVE TO LOCAL DISK"??? I'd look in /tmp if windoze had one.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Verizon h8
Man, I fuckin hate VZN. At least three times this week I am alerted to new voice mail but the phone has not rung in hours! Apparently the call never made it to the handset because there is no "missed call" in the display.
This made me want to test my phone to see if it was working.
So I called my cell from a landline and immediately "BING BING BING" goes my cell phone. Is this because the landline was VZN? Do they send calls from other providers straight to voicemail when their oversubscribed network is saturated?
I'm guessing, "yes."
Oh, and when VZN does send me voice mail alerts for new voice mail, the alerts arrive TWENTY MINUTES after the inbound call was placed!
VZN, you are teh suck. If I was not getting this phone for next to nothing, I'd jump to some other provider. I may do so anyway.
If Obama straightened out the FCC that would make up for all the mistakes he's made to date.
I'd like to roast Michael Powell on a spit. Kevin J. Martin too.
This made me want to test my phone to see if it was working.
So I called my cell from a landline and immediately "BING BING BING" goes my cell phone. Is this because the landline was VZN? Do they send calls from other providers straight to voicemail when their oversubscribed network is saturated?
I'm guessing, "yes."
Oh, and when VZN does send me voice mail alerts for new voice mail, the alerts arrive TWENTY MINUTES after the inbound call was placed!
VZN, you are teh suck. If I was not getting this phone for next to nothing, I'd jump to some other provider. I may do so anyway.
If Obama straightened out the FCC that would make up for all the mistakes he's made to date.
I'd like to roast Michael Powell on a spit. Kevin J. Martin too.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Stargate Universe is teh suck
Man, such a blatant, pathetic attempt to ape the style and substance of Battlestar Galactica. What a odoriferous pile of steaming dung.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Snow Leopard is good
I paid the $25 for Sniz Leopard and installed it last night. I bought it only for the much hyped Exchange integration features.
Seems to work fine so far. I now have access to the Exchange server's address book, which is the only part of Exchange that seems useful. The appointment alerts work in iCal, too.
Some day before I die I hope Exchange will cease to be thought of as indispensable. That will be a good day. There are plenty of alternatives but in 2009 it is unthinkable for most companies to ditch Exchange for anything else. The reasons for keeping or deploying Exchange are primarily based on FUD.
Seems to work fine so far. I now have access to the Exchange server's address book, which is the only part of Exchange that seems useful. The appointment alerts work in iCal, too.
Some day before I die I hope Exchange will cease to be thought of as indispensable. That will be a good day. There are plenty of alternatives but in 2009 it is unthinkable for most companies to ditch Exchange for anything else. The reasons for keeping or deploying Exchange are primarily based on FUD.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
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